May, 2015
Mayor of Seoul and Preda Fair Trade Founder Celebrate World Fair Trade day.
May 11, 2015 ·
Seoul, South Korea. Preda Fair Trade founder and general manager Father Shay Cullen was the special guest of Park Won-Soon, the mayor of Seoul, South Korea on World Fair Trade Day, Saturday 9th May. It was celebrated in Seoul, South Korea with a Fair Trade festival. Booths were set up by many fair trade non-government […]
Read More...Vatican approves statutes for papal commission for protecting minors
May 11, 2015 ·
ABUSE-STATUTES May-8-2015 (380 words) xxxi By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors received temporary approval of its first set of statutes. U.S. Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston — one of the pope’s top cardinal advisers and president of the pontifical commission, had submitted […]
Read More...Spain – From child to mother: 20,000 children give birth every day in developing countries
May 11, 2015 ·
Published 08/05/2015 (ANS – Madrid) – Some 13 million girls under the age of 18 become pregnant every year worldwide, according to data from the United Nations Population Fund, and almost 95% of them live in developing countries. “Most of these minors do not become mothers by choice. Many are forced into marriage, others are […]
Read More...Thai police find second human trafficking camp.
May 9, 2015 · By (Kocha Olarn and Don Melvin for CNN.com)
Thai police said Tuesday they had found a second camp used for human trafficking and had discovered three trafficking victims hiding in it. The camp is close to one discovered last week in which Thai authorities said they found the remains of at least 26 people along with one survivor who had to be hospitalized. […]
Read More...French soldier-child sex abuse claims in Central African Republic investigated
May 9, 2015 ·
By Laura Smith-Spar and Sandrine Amiel, CNN Updated 1633 GMT (2333 HKT) May 1, 2015 Paris (CNN)Hungry, homeless young boys in the Central African Republic were forced by French soldiers to perform sex acts on them in return for food or money, the director of an advocacy group said Thursday, citing a confidential United Nations report […]
Read More...Desire to work abroad exploited by human traffickers
May 9, 2015 ·
Buena Bernal Published 2:31 PM, May 07, 2015 Updated 2:31 PM, May 07, 2015 Migrant workers’ rights advocate Susan ‘Toots’ Ople explains that human trafficking almost always starts with illegal recruitment – the promise of overseas employment MANILA, Philippines – “Oy, maayo kay dia ka (Oy, it’s good you are here),” began one recruiter in […]
Read More...ACT bucks national trend as child abuse report reveals big drop in cases.
May 8, 2015 · By (Primrose Riordan for Canberratimes.com.au)
The ACT has bucked the national trend, recording significant drops in child protection and abuse cases, a new Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report reveals. The Institute found reductions in the number of children receiving child protection services, the number of child abuse investigations and the number of children eventually found to have been […]
Read More...Lord Janner child sex abuse claims: Israeli schools remove plaques bearing Labour peer’s name.
May 8, 2015 · By (Joe Millis for ibtimes.co.uk)
Israeli organisations and schools have begun to remove plaques bearing the name of Lord Janner after prosecutors said they would not charge the peer for child sex offences because he had dementia. An Israeli nursery in the Galilee town of Ma’alot-Tarshiha took down the plague for the Lord Greville Janner Education Centre following allegations […]
Read More...UN aid worker suspended for leaking report on child abuse by French troops
May 8, 2015 · By (Sandra Laville for The Guardian.com)
Anders Kompass said to have passed confidential document to French authorities because of UN’s failure to stop abuse of children in Central African Republic A senior United Nations aid worker has been suspended for disclosing to prosecutors an internal report on the sexual abuse of children by French peacekeeping troops in the Central African Reuplic. […]
Read More...Nepal quake survivors face threat from human traffickers supplying sex trade
May 8, 2015 · By (Jason Burke in Kathmandu for The Guardian.com)
Criminal networks using cover of rescue effort to target poor rural communities in country from which an estimated 15,000 girls are trafficked a year, warn NGOs Tens of thousands of young women from regions devastated by the earthquake in Nepal are being targeted by human traffickers supplying a network of brothels across south Asia, campaigners in […]
